Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] [pron] to the " in BNC.
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1 | And I tried to fix it to the door and it would n't , I tried to do it up with Blu-Tack and would have none of it , I tried to do it with Sellotape and would n't do it the Sellotape kept on coming away something in the varnish I think that resisted that so then I thought , right I 'll I 'll tie the thing up in someway , I forget how , and blew away went down the drive ! |
2 | I dived towards the scarlet streaks and touched him at once , but there was no movement in him , and when I tried to pull him to the surface , I could n't . |
3 | I promised to remember her to the Harvey-Beaumonts ‘ over the water ’ , and we set off once more , along a road that ran beside a demesne wall . |
4 | I seemed to do anything to the car , mind with the water pump I think they check , they have to er adjust the timing . |
5 | ‘ I 'd have been all right if I 'd made it to the main road . ’ |
6 | I 'd left it to the end of the meal before I said anything about being arrested . |
7 | ‘ I was actually satisfied with that , if only because I 'd resigned myself to the fact that I 'd never be thin , ’ she admits . |
8 | ‘ I did n't do it grudgingly , I 'd resigned myself to the fact that football was his burning passion . |
9 | I decided to commit myself to the revolution and in January 1981 , went to the Frente Paracentral , which at that time covered parts of the Departments of Cabanas . |
10 | Seriously , I did offer myself to the Lord , but when the opportunity came , it was quite a shock . |
11 | I did make it to the LSE eventually and , a dozen love affairs and three broken engagements later , into marriage . |
12 | I had made it to the door of my flat . |
13 | ‘ But I already have an assault charge hanging over me , so in the end I had to leave it to the stewards . |
14 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |
15 | ‘ I had to take her to the polo . |
16 | But I could n't let go of him , I had to get him to the cops . |
17 | Now that I had to get it to the by taxi and she had seven stitches put in the leg and , I had to leave her there for six hours , well then it was a taxi back home , I could n't now I am on income support , but that cost me fifty four pound , ninety five and I am paying that . |
18 | Beryl was poorly this morning and I had to run her to the doctors . |
19 | By now I had covered a fair expanse of this wood , and I had resigned myself to the fact that this would be the earliest I would get , regardless of what was in the ground . |
20 | I did enjoy myself , once I had accustomed myself to the way the Yanks danced . |
21 | I had taken her to the Three Tuns , and told the others to meet us there , on the basis that it was the second nearest pub to the scene of the demo and the nearest one to Seymour Street police station . |
22 | I had taken them to the meeting . |
23 | I wanted to drive her to the very edge of despair . |
24 | ‘ He was always talking about the past but I wanted to introduce him to the present . |